No one can take his title because the dunk contest winner Saturday will be a team of three.

Oh sure, there's going to be a fan vote afterwards to determine "Dunker of the Night" but the title will actually go to the team.

It's no secret the dunk contest needed a rebrand, but this might be a case of 'Be careful what you wish for.'

Ross, as confident and loose around cameras and media in general that we can ever remember him being, says he likes the new format.

He will team up with John Wall of the Washington Wizards and Paul George of the Indiana Pacers to form Team East.

Team West will consist of Portland's Damian Lillard, who will set some sort of unofficial all-star weekend record by competing in five events this weekend, Golden State's Harrison Barnes, and Sacramento's Ben McLemore.

The contest will be broken down into two segments. In the freestyle segment each team will have 90 seconds to thrown down as many dunks as they want with the judges determining a winner, either East or West.

Win that round and you get the choice of order for the second round which is the Battle Round. Here it's East vs. West with individuals from both teams pairing off against one another.

Judges will declare a winner of each battle with the first team to win three battles earning the Slam Dunk crown.

Only then will fans have their say choosing one of the three victorious team members via text and twitter.

Ross swears he likes the changes.

"I personally like it," he said. "A lot of people are (against it) but after they see what is going to happen and how the dunks turn out everyone is going to like it.

"It's going to be a lot more fun," Ross said. "Last year we had great dunkers but we were all doing our own thing. Now we have a chance to work together and do some things that nobody has ever seen before so I think that will be the best thing about it."

Ross, George and Wall got together Friday night for a team dunk rehearsal and Ross sounded awfully excited about what they came up with.

What exactly that is, Ross was guarding pretty closely.

"You'll see tomorrow," he said. "It's only 24 more hours. Y'all can wait until then."

There was talk that DeMar DeRozan might be used as a facilitator or assistant in one or more of the dunks Ross would try but that has been kiboshed.

"DeMar won't be involved," Ross said, "but he helped a lot (Thursday night) at our rehearsal but he won't be involved."

DeRozan, who will compete in the skills competition Saturday night in addition to Sunday's all-star game, says he has no problem being pushed aside.

"He don't need me," DeRozan said. "But I still got faith in him. I just add my two cents in there. I don't want to give away too much but it should be a good competition, especially for the East."

Between them, Ross and George have what many consider the two dunks of the year so far. George pulled off a reverse 360 jam against the Clippers while Ross put Denver's Kenneth (The Manimal) Faried, one of the most feared shot-blockers in the league, on a poster in his.

But Ross says the edge has to go to George at this point.

"I would say Paul just because he had the courage to go and do something like that," Ross said. "That is something I wouldn't try in warmups because I've only made that dunk maybe once or twice in my life. To try it in a game, an actual NBA game, that takes courage so I would probably say his."

"If he does it, he'll bring the house down," Ross said without any hesitation. "If I tried that I would probably roll both my ankles."

George is one of three players in Sunday's all-star game also competing in the dunk contest. Lillard and Wall are the others. This has not happened since 1988 when Clyde Drexler, Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins all took part in the dunk competition.

George, who initially was reluctant to take part, said he changed his mind because he felt he owed the fans something.

"I wanted to give back to my fans and at the end of the day that's what this whole weekend is about, the fans," the Indiana forward said. "I was just being thankful for the fans voting me in as a starter so I wanted to give them something back."

Lillard had his own reasons.

"Once I made the all-star game I knew I would probably be in the Rising Stars," he said. "I also knew I had to defend my skills title and I wanted to shoot (in the three-point contest). I mean I was leading the league in three-pointers made for a while so I figured I would get a chance to shoot. I'm capable of pulling off some dunks so I figured why not make it all five?"

Lillard this weekend will become the first player in NBA history to take part in all five contests.

And just like Ross no matter what happens, Lillard will retain his skills challenge title because that competition also has become a team thing.